Test & Code

77: Testing Complex Systems with Maintainable Test Suites


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Creating maintainable test suites for complex systems. The episode describes some complexities involved with hardware testing, then shares techniques for shifting complexity out of the test cases.

  • quick overview of what test instruments are
  • discussion of API and communication with instruments
  • techniques for shifting complexity out of test cases
  • These techniques should apply to all test suites dealing with complex systems:

    • Creating test cases that are easy to read and debug and tell a story about what is being tested.
    • Pushing setup complexity into fixtures.
    • Pushing lengthy repetitive API call sets into helper functions.
    • Using stable, documented, interfaces.
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